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Business Research Publications from BRS

Useful and informative books, articles, reports, and booklets.
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Books

with companion CD

Business Research: Methods and Strategy

This book has been developed to satisfy a niche within the market research community. Summaries of varied market research techniques cover surveys, focus groups, interviews, case studies, feasibility studies, and the often overlooked function of competitor profiling (competitive intelligence).  These summaries provide librarians with a business perspective for the research context while providing business managers insight into the research framework.

The companion CD for this new book will allow you to electronically review this text and use the books’ forms – such as the business plan - on your PC. Thus, you can keep the print book as a reference guide and electronically distribute the completed forms as presentations to your staff.

Price: $35.00    Order

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with companion CD

Competitive Intelligence Workbook

One of the perennial challenges in intelligence work is how to collect, organize and manage data. Our Competitive Intelligence Workbook provides an easy-to-follow overview of the process. For those considering the use of competitive intelligence for their business, it serves as an excellent introduction and guide.

It is also an great tool for experienced intelligence professionals looking for standardized, easy-to-use forms. Manager reports, charts, data organization forms, "intelligence memos", bibliography documents, and many others, are all made available. Customize your reports and tailor your presentations - it's never been easier!

The Competitive Intelligence Workbook satisfies a unique niche requirement within the competitive intelligence market - a "median" industry publication that fills the space between narrative, how-to intelligence textbooks and high-end technical computer software.

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And for something completely different...

Email Jokes: A Snapshot Anthology of the Internet

*Now for the Lighter Side........*

All work and no play? Well.....yes and no. We at Burkhardt Research Services are "all work" during business hours. Our business publications are a testament to the work we do. At the same time, we recognize that people "play" during their off hours. An occasional laugh can even be squeezed in at work - over the water cooler, at company parties, during the holidays, etc.

This book, "E-Mail Jokes: A Snapshot Anthology of the Internet," is a testament to that lighter side of life that we call "play." In fact, this book could serve as an office-appropriate gift for all occasions - holidays, birthdays, personal milestones, and retirements.

This pocketbook, intended to serve as light coffee table conversation for naval gazers, offers a passing glimpse at the emerging historical confluence of society and the internet. It is also intended to be a humorous keepsake for those of us who experienced the internet’s revolutionary contribution to how we communicate. The focus of this “coffee table pocketbook” is the approximate time period of 1996 – 2006. The introductory portion of the book provides a launch pad for group discussions about how society transitioned into e-mail usage as an every day means of communication. The balance of the book provides selected “keepsake jokes” that will help us reflect – in later years – upon this period of our social e-history.

This book provides readers a chance to laugh all over again at the jokes that had us chuckling the first time around. Great gift for birthdays, holidays, you name it! Printed in North America.

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Research Reports
2007 Self-Employment Survey

Burkhardt Research Services' credible market studies provide in-depth research and analysis applicable to the needs of our clients.

Potential clients may contact us directly for a summary of this sample report conducted on self-employment in North America (2007).  This study - which supplements standard demographic statistics from the census - looks at self-employment from the perspective of self-employed persons (reasons for self-employment, support mechanisms used, marketing strategies, etc.). 

This study of the experiences of self-employed persons demonstrates the breadth of our research while concurrently bringing additional attention to the small business people who help sustain our economy (we encourage everyone to do support small businesses in your community).

Persons wanting to cross-tabulate the complete study results may do so on a purchase basis. Cross-tabulations of the study results are available for $60.00.

Non-clients may also purchase the summary report by calling us at (888) 432-9119.  Overseas customers can contact us at
keb@burkhardtresearch.com
 
Competitive Intelligence Report: Survey of Current Practices and Perceptions 2006
 
Study demonstrates how companies perform competitor intelligence.
 
Competitive intelligence is a corporate strategy tool that studies individual competitors  and the competitive market forces that affect a firm.

Price: $60.00    Order

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Reports for a complete description.

 
Competitive Intelligence Report: Survey of Current Practices and Perceptions 2002
 
Study demonstrates how companies perform competitor intelligence.
 
Competitive intelligence is a corporate strategy tool that studies individual competitors  and the competitive market forces that affect a firm.

Price: $45.00    Order

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Reports for a complete description.

 
White Papers
Our white papers, which we publish periodically, speak to our knowledge and perspective on select topics.

These white papers serve as discussion and/or backgrounder pieces for interested parties with whom Burkhardt Research Services establishes dialogue - prospective clients, collaborators, and conference organizers.

Retail off-the-shelf pricing is $30 per white paper.

Our white papers include:

U.S. ELECTIONS: THE ABROAD VOTE

There are between six and ten million Americans living abroad. Given that only 17 states have populations of at least six million people (U.S. Census population estimates for 2010), the votes of Americans living abroad are significant. How campaigns look at – and work with – this group of voters involves taking the time to understand the abroad vote. This white paper provides an analysis of the abroad vote.

 

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About Political Campaigning at Burkhardt Research Services
Kim Burkhardt, the Managing Director of Burkhardt Research Services, is active within the Democratic Party and worked as a Regional Field Director on Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign. Party engagement extends to voter registration organizing, membership database management, and regional development of the party.

 
A Descriptive Comparison of Corrections in the U.S. and Canada

How do levels of crime and incarceration compare between the U.S. and Canada? How do these two countries manage behaviors defined as unsafe or hazardous deviations from the accepted social order? What are the defining characteristics of the correctional systems in each country? What community-based organizations are involved in the correctional system and in what ways? What types of corrections-related reference sources are available in Canada and the U.S.? This white paper provides a comparative review of these topics.

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About Correctional Involvement at Burkhardt Research Services
Kim Burkhardt, the Managing Director of Burkhardt Research Services, has been active in various aspects of community-based correctional programming since 1994. She has most recently become involved with the Community Reentry Coalition in Bellingham, Washington and is developing new corrections-related initiatives. A second member of our team, Alison Granger-Brown, has worked for - and around - Corrections Canada for over ten years and makes corrections-related presentations on multiple continents.

 
A Community Look at Correctional Sentencing and Outcomes in the U.S.  Are we on the right track?

It is widely recognized that the U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other country on earth. Is there any good coming from what Fordham University’s Dr. James A. Wilson calls this “U.S. social experiment in mass incarceration?" How do contextual considerations reflect on this question? What should be happening in regards to - or in response to - this state of mass incarceration? Analyst Kim Burkhardt provides an overview of these topics and raises both considerations and action items for the community.

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About Correctional Involvement at Burkhardt Research Services
Kim Burkhardt, the Managing Director of Burkhardt Research Services, has been active in various aspects of community-based correctional programming since 1994. She has most recently become involved with the Community Reentry Coalition in Bellingham, Washington and is developing new corrections-related initiatives. A second member of our team, Alison Granger-Brown, has worked for - and around - Corrections Canada for over ten years and makes corrections-related presentations on multiple continents.

   
SUCCESSFUL MARKETING: GETTING PERSONAL ABOUT PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS

Where do you want to be professionally in five, ten, or fifteen years? How do you want your biography of professional success to read when you retire? Have you ever believed that professional success is strictly a matter of learning and improving upon the job tasks or skills needed to do a chosen job and trying hard? Simply having the professional skills to land a new job or new promotion isn’t enough to advance professionally. This white paper takes several common marketing principles and applies them to the personal task of professional self-promotion and career enhancement. You too can become comfortable – and successful - assuming the role of marketing on your own behalf.

 

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About Marketing at Burkhardt Research Services
Kim Burkhardt, the Managing Director of Burkhardt Research Services, periodically teaches university-level marketing courses.

 

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